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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth -- [...] 'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth. [...] 'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] rep...Claire Clairmont Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Writ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 27, 28, 29 December 1820; and 3 and 5 J...Claire Clairmont Germaine de StaelDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisUnknown
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the History of the Crusades by Michaud.'Claire Clairmont Joseph Francois MichaudHistoire des croisadesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniI Due Pantaloni o i mercantantiPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLe Donne CuriosePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland [...] 'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Finish the Memoirs of Madame Roland.'Claire Clairmont Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois BarriereMemoires de Madame RolandPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.' [Also records reading this text on 31 May 1821, and on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 June]. Claire Clairmont Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Leiden des jungen WertherPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st Canto of Paradise lost by the side of the fire which ...Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.' Claire Clairmont Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke'Political Works'Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion. [...] 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr. G[ambs]. It is a charming tragedy in the romantic style and the novelty of th...Claire Clairmont Ernst Christoph von HouwaldDas Bild: Trauerspiel in funf AktenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in German.' Claire Clairmont Carl Friedrich Beckerlife of Charles XIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse...Lady Caroline Lamb William GodwinunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe Print: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian]Print: Book


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